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From: tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle to have text/memo data types, or blob soon???
Keywords: oracle blob
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.161813.3605@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 31 Dec 90 16:18:13 GMT
References: <19615@netcom.UUCP> <9165@cognos.UUCP>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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>In article <19615@netcom.UUCP> lpendley@netcom.UUCP (Lou Pendley) writes:
>>I have settled on Oracle as a development platform, and am curious if
>>they will soon, within the next 2 years, come out with a data type of 
>>memo/text that could contain a variable number of lines/characters, and
>>if there will ever be a blob: binary large object.
>
>
>You must be loyal if you want the function but are willing to wait up
>to two years for a feature that many commercial systems have been supporting
>in various degrees ! 
>
>
>-- 
>Nigel Campbell          Voice: (613) 783-6828                P.O. Box 9707

I've been watching this and I guess I don't understand what the difference
between blobs and Oracle's raw long type. SQL*Forms doesn't support (except
on Sun's) long types. Is there some functionality in the kernal to support
a memo/text data type that needs to be added. We're using Oracle to implement
a publishing database and we're doing okay.

As a trival thought, will SQL*Forms under Motif or (X11) allow use of longs
as pict's or bitmaps?


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